{"id":8828,"date":"2010-06-25T13:32:31","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T18:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=8828"},"modified":"2011-03-07T22:27:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T03:27:18","slug":"jackson-in-negotitations-to-direct-hobbit-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/25\/jackson-in-negotitations-to-direct-hobbit-films\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackson In Negotiations To Direct HOBBIT Films"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/PeterJackson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8832\" title=\"PeterJackson\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/PeterJackson-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/PeterJackson-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/PeterJackson.jpg 323w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/a>Peter Jackson is apparently sliding into the director&#8217;s chair for The Hobbit after all.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/blogs\/heat-vision\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood Reporter<\/a> is stating that the <strong>Lord Of The Rings<\/strong> director is currently discussing with Warner Brothers\/New Line to take the reings of the film, following Guillermo del Toro&#8217;s leaving the project last month. Del Toro walked in the face of further delays on the part of the film&#8217;s distributor MGM&#8217;s continuing financial problems.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson had stated previously that he was only interested in producing and co-writing the planned two-part adaptation of JRR Tolkien&#8217;s classic fantasy novel <em>The Hobbit<\/em>. Some observers have stated that Warners was always going to try and woo Jackson in to the director&#8217;s position and that they have not been doing much in the way of searching for another director over the past several weeks.<\/p>\n<p>But really, is anyone surprised by this turn of events?<\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;\">http:\/\/www.heatvisionblog.com\/2010\/06\/peter-jackson-directing-hobbit-movies.html<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Peter Jackson is apparently sliding into the director&#8217;s chair for The Hobbit after all. The Hollywood Reporter is stating that the Lord Of The Rings director is currently discussing with Warner Brothers\/New Line to take <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/25\/jackson-in-negotitations-to-direct-hobbit-films\/\" title=\"Jackson In Negotiations To Direct HOBBIT Films\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[1594,1816],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8828","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-peter-jackson","9":"tag-the-hobbit"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8828"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=8828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}